1st time i want prime minister made to come back to power and move the country forward and develop it so that the unemployed can get employment. environ arcee is one of 13 seats in the state of pradesh that's being fought over on sunday it's the parliamentary seat of the incumbent prime minister narendra modi there are many issues the electorate has had to consider communal politics unemployment the economy education and national security. for some small scale manufacturers the issue is clear this factory produces fans and has been severely affected by the monetize ation and the introduction of the new goods and services tax g.s.t. which is added to the manufacturing cost and impacted of the workforce there was the new government to revisit the amount of tax small cottage industries like kids have to pay. for about 50 to 60000 people depend on cottage industries like us here my sales are down and property margins tool by about 60 to 70 percent when it comes

to workforce i used to have about 30 employees now i can only afford 10. analysts suggest there is a disconnect between what the public needs and what politicians say they can deliver i think one of the reasons is that. india has been quite an immigrant from the masses they don't have things to offer our. economies are. going deep into a crisis and the promises that they are making the parties and it's very difficult to fulfill their promises so they don't want to talk about. these voters wait patiently in line for their turn to vote the country will have to wait until thursday before the national vote count begins. so all that's left to do is the vote count that will happen on thursday and then they'll be a better indication of what india's new parliament will look like and who might lead a new indian government for the moment. exit polls are suggesting that the b j p

might just sneak in with another victory along with our allies but indian pollsters have been notoriously role historically they were in 2014 so we wait and see how the indian public voted or what the reaction will be from politicians north south east or west. at least 17 people have been injured in an attack on a tourist bust in egypt it happened near the granny gyptian museum that's under construction near the world famous fair maids at giza police say the bus was hit by a roadside bomb blast some of the injured are thought to be tourists from south africa the government is hoping the new museum will help boost the tourism industry which is recovering from the 27 revolution and several attacks on foreign visitors timothy countess is from the terrier institute for middle east policy he explains why such attacks are damaging efforts to rebuild egypt's tourism sector. the psychological impact of the attack that can still be quite substantial is the 2nd

time that a bus of tourists attacked and the last 6 months previously in december 28th it was the last time we saw that and so it will i think jaw a number of governments who have been lobbied by the egyptian government to exhaust outlet by streets for their citizens who are considering visit egypt the number one suspect at this point will be ice so this really sickly they've been the primary actor that's been targeting civilians and force with their attacks most of the other militant groups that focus on security forces in their operations and so in all likelihood it will come out speaking of isis however they don't always take responsibility for their attacks so there is possibility that we won't know at all we're talking december 28th the night to provide stability for possibility source and there certainly be announcement of increased security and i think it's been the free the the more but nature of these attacks up particularly in. one of the last 6 months and and parties in the last of those meet the new didn't really focus on

ramping up the already and the expansiveness a security presence in the area and trying to sweep for any possible light before they are native they have caught some of them so they didn't come to this one before it went off. plenty more ahead on this news hour including christian communities living in fear we have an exclusive report from northern booking a fossil and a shock for the troubled when is manchester city's captain quit softer 11 years peter we'll have the details in sports. a reminder of our breaking news out of iraq this hour they are reports again of a mortar round being fired close to the high security green zone in baghdad the area houses key government buildings and the u.s. embassy the explosion was reported about 20 minutes ago no word yet on any

casualties will bring you the latest when we have it meanwhile iraq's oil minister is criticizing exxon mobil's decision to evacuate all its foreign staff as an acceptable and unjustified to me a gun ban says the decision was made for political purposes and not because of security concerns the u.s. energy giant fuel dozens of mainly u.s. workers at an oil field near basra to dubai on saturday bahrain ordered all of its nationals to leave iraq and iran because of what it called i'm stable conditions love matheson is explains why xom decision has angered iraqi government. exxon mobil's said on saturday that they would have vacuum waiting for the members of the stuff taking them to boston airport and flying them to dubai we understand that 16 members of staff made that trip at the plant they were working at just outside basra is still functioning 1700 iraqi employees making the plant work and

producing roughly 440000 barrels a day. exxon mobil did not give any reason specifically as to why they had evacuated this stuff but they had said it was because of the situation in the region and also potential security threats now this has really angered the iraqi government in particular the iraqi oil minister who called the move unjustified and unacceptable the oil minister has written a letter to exxon mobil asking for more details about what they thought the security threats were and to invite the stuff back but he says there is a wider issue at stake here this is not about security he says this is about politics he believes that the u.s. government is using exxon mobile to try to send a message to foreign investors in iraq that iraq is not safe that's something that the iraqi government categorically denies however the oil minister has also gone one further exxon mobil was due to sign a deal worth 53000000000 dollars which is

a joint deal with china's petro china with the rag in the days running up to having made this decision but the oil minister now says that whole process has been slow done he's quoted as saying now they are out of the country why should i run after them. regional rivals iran and saudi arabia say they don't want a war as riyadh's on why the united states builds up its military presence in the gulf that 8 of iran's revolutionary guard says his country is not pursuing a conflict his comments came after the saudi foreign ministry said the kingdom doesn't want to escalate tensions but will respond if you want chooses to engage in conflicts king solomon has called for 2 emergency summits involving gulf and arab leaders later this month to discuss a situation in the region when you have a saudi arabia does not want war in the region and is not seeking it and will do its best to evade it but at the same time if the other party chooses war then we

will respond with all strength and determination and will defend itself and its interests the kingdom hopes others to be wise and the iranian regime and its agents to stay away from recklessness and stupid acts and spare the region instability in saudi arabia the international community to take responsibility to stop that regime from destabilizing the world oil producing nations are meeting in saudi arabia to discuss prices and production limits u.s. resin donald trump say saudi arabia and other opec members had agreed to his request to boost oil production to combat an increase in fuel prices following renewed sanctions on iran but at the meeting of eurabia and nigeria a call for fuel supplies to be driven down to avoid a drop in global crisis. going forward there are great uncertainties. one of them of course is disruptions that could be caused by civil

unrest in some countries with which we have a lot of sympathy and support member countries and we care for them and we hope they quickly stabilize but they are currently. experiencing a lot of difficulties there are geopolitical issues including sanctions on some countries that are members of our grouping that could impact their supply go in going forward let's speak some more about this not to manage share tacon who is an independent oil an energy consultant and a former senior officer at opec is live from london thank you so much for being with us so no major announcement in saudi arabia but what do you expect to happen at the next opec meeting in june and what sort of action all we're likely to see on output policy. well it all really depends on what would happen in the world market and in the region of politics between now and then. got for it if

there is no conflict which i hope no one would expect and feasible as normal as it is i think the self-reliant demand would still remain more or less balanced this is what his excellency the saudi oil minister and others have mentioned in the last few weeks that still the inventors that is the storage of oil in for example united states and in the industrialized countries are listed at the very high level of the whole big not opaque alliance to reduce supply was intended to make reduce disavowal of. large body of off oil in danger entries because that would pushes the price down so i think a by. reflecting on the normal position as they are that remain would be doing your same thing and they would not cut the production another point you defeat year of sanctions on iran is that so it at the last november on this threats by president

trump actually increased production and were the last the day before prison time was supposed to would sanctions on iran he change his mind and so the price of all failing to low levels right and so that is why the minister has said we are going to wait and see the market situation and they are not going to rush into making decision and i do want to ask you about the impact of the sanctions on iran's oil sector but as you know the u.s. which is a close ally of saudi arabia but not a member of opec wants the group to boost output to bring down the oil prices how difficult a balancing act is this for the saudis i mean pleasing their u.s. allies but also not upsetting the russians. well on the political level of course they are in the same boat south so to speak with the united states but i think on the oil side they are professional the oil minister although he is a minister he is the patent and he is a politician but i think he looks at the oil market and edition should we do are

there all pick ministers and all that over producing exporting countries on a professional level and looking exactly what the supply demand balance is the realistic outlook of oil market in their future models the following months and making decisions i don't think they are going to listen to the demands of bridget and would be a power if i may say they were a united states is acting and say yes your ex and the you know and yes and no i think they are acting independently and if one another they are cool and trying to be wise right i don't think they would listen they would do wonders if that'll be the saving of us seeing what we face before we let you go what about the even use in all this how much do you expect their oil exports to drop in light of the more recent u.s. sanctions. well i don't think it will drop that much to see it is difficult to know the statistics you know and you know it explores in the last few months you still divorce sanctions except some waivers reported being one point $1000000.00 barrels

per day exports other sources for the last few months were $1900000.00 barrels per day so really one does is difficult to know and the forecasts are that it might fall below 1000000 barrels per day exactly how much i don't know because there are lots of ways and means that you can export it's ordered and it really in india this thick way it is impossible to actually control the iranian or to explore sunny iran has been under sanctions a few years back and again dad gone through of ways and means finding of to continue exporting year or so i really can't say exactly but i think exaggerated figures that it would become 0 and too low another thing we should take that it's really thank you very much for your insight manisha attacking joining us there from london. that is less than a week to go on tell european parliamentary elections then with major gains predicted for far right and populist politicians counter protests have been held

across germany as gotye european new center in london and get more with barbara starr barbara. fairly thank you yes tens of thousands of people have rallied in berlin frankfurt munich and other german cities in the fence of the e.u. they say they're answering calls from the german chancellor angela merkel to push back against the far right merkel has warned that nationalism is the enemy of the european project meanwhile on saturday italy's they're pretty prime minister at their salvini organize the rally in milan attended by nationalist politicians from right across the bloc they vow to reshape the european parliament. immigration of course one of the key issues of the upcoming european alleged elections in rome says it's moving to formalize the closure of its ports to aid groups that rescue migrants at sea that's as a german humanitarian ship remains in italian waters with dozens of migrants on board the firing

a band by italy's deputy prime minister met their civilian sea watch says it's broken the band for humanitarian reasons and its boat is near the italian island of lampedusa the u.n. meanwhile has condemned this of these actions saying that they violate human rights let's speak to georgia and out of the who is a spokeswoman for sea watch and she joins us on the line from london producer madame good to have you on the program 1st of all bring us up to date with the latest though of what's actually happening on the boat itself because i understand that some of the migrants have now disembarked. yes good evening i'm here and i'm better than i can see this ship which is really very close to the coast 8 the moment only 2 people have been does them bart a pregnant woman with the risk of abortion and a person of her partner that was traveling with her the rest of the people remains aboard the 45 people on board meanwhile the ship has been.

put in probably confiscation by the prosecutor of our great gentle competent for a. produce that their puppets are a confiscation means that the prosecutor will ask thurston if we actually committed the crime of hostility thing illegal immigration which is what the government has trying to push against activity of n.g.o.s i think 2 years now with several investigations that so far have brought to nothing and so these are this is these are debates for the moment. because obviously the deputy prime minister of italy matheson feeney is really you know made a key point just of the electoral you know when he was running for office but certainly since he's been in government this is one of his main issues that he wants to stop i guess both like your is bringing migrants said to mrs lee how difficult does that make your job and you know what are you thinking of doing now. it makes our job extremely difficult day you money tired of pacing the central

mediterranean is definitely shrinking and what we're doing is just this thing of the moment we will continue with our humanitarian mission until there's this possible because they did our responsibility to not let anyone to die the while government of the european members they have signed a deal with leave the amp every 2017 that actually delegate on the beach or reception of the people in the central mediterranean to the needy and coastguard that then brings the people back to libya where they are an image of me and deliberately detained and they survive these detention centers they're brought back at the end actually he's the traffickers the the ability to exploit the same person over and over again of course our presence that see to witness more nature and say lies is not. welcome by the government because of course the things they do not want to be to be heard however we we are here to to to to fill

a gap left by authorities should not be the work of n.g.o.s the rescue lies that should be a responsibility of the authorities and that we really. look forward today to the next elections and hope that finally the european union will understand that this is not an emergency but a structural phenomenon that they you have to deal with in a comprehensive way what is absolutely wrong is to shift land problems. you rescue and you bring people to a place of safety in. even without any delay and i'm quoting and i'm quoting the law and the problem is that no european country wants to receive these people and the e.u. has not been able to come up with a predictable register abuse and relocation system however again this is not something that should be debated at the outbreak just that captain that has rescued the police force to remain at sea for days. and is investigated for facilitating

illegal immigration when they actually just follow the duty to rescue which is legal and moral due to church the spokeswoman for sea watch speaking to us from the island of lampedusa madame's thank you. he also chancellor sebastian kurtz says snap elections will be held in september following a corruption scandal involving his vice chancellor and scris instructed resigned from the freedom party after footage emerged of him allegedly speaking to a russian investor struck is believed to have offered the investor a construction contracts in exchange for party support he has denied doing anything illegal. voters in switzerland have backed tightening gun laws to bring them in line with the e.u. legislation projections from sunday's referendum show that 67 percent are in favor of gun reform there restrictions would tighten the sale of semiautomatic and automatic weapons so it's low as one of the highest rates of private gun ownership

in europe that is it from me i'm going to have more for you from london in about half an hour's time now let's go back to folly in doha barbara thank you very much we'll see you at 900 g.m.t. and still ahead on this news hour a fresh road to boeing's reputation the aerospace company admits flaws in its 737 max simulators after 2 fetal crash tests. an update on our breaking news out of iraq this hour the iraqi military is now saying that a catch you sure rocket has been fired into the high security green zone in baghdad this happened in the last hour the area the green zone houses important government buildings and the u.s. embassy there no reports yet of any casualties this comes as the u.s. ordered nonessential diplomatic staff to evacuate the embassy on wednesday let's speak to. about this is

a visiting fellow at the nottingham university center for conflict security and terrorism is via skype from london how concerning how worrying is an attack i mean all is is a mortar attack it would seem on the green zone at a time of really heightened tensions in this region. well it is if it's an attack that's been treated by us and. likely allegiance charo groups the billions off either isis with them it's no more than business as usual all these assault with tanks that have taken place periodically on the booms only yesterday however there was a. alleged who might well as a drone on and we hear assemble say and it does appear that they may well be at least allegations if not fact was that this attack might have

been perpetuated by. groups that are sympathetic to iran given the tension that is now increasing within the vaults where are we delegations that iran is behind the attacks and 3 or tankers and the about you ation ordered by the embassy seem to link or the events of the rain yes and it's hard to talk to the bahraini and have said they're not interested in war they're not interested in starting a conflict these posts so disown who say talk about that are sympathetic to iran i mean would they would they go separately from from iran in order to back iran or would they heed any counts for calm from the iranians. well i i don't think that these groups are likely to to go all against the bushies we're on but i did say was that your allegations who don't know what will be is a true and as you quite rightly quote it is not to be in threats to iran to provoke

a conflict to iran that understands fully that if there is an attack on its territory it will suffer hugely and so on maybe how thing is there are groups that are sort of friendly to the idea of a conflict between iran and the usa and those groups may have a few gems those that align not so much with iran we've got the forces and why it's all might these groups be. i think. it would be irresponsible to speculate. since of any fact all i'm saying to you is the tone you quite rightly pointed out was that iran has said that it doesn't want any oh please and you know any rational calculation of iran's position would suggest that it would not want to provoke want not want to give the u.s. and its alliance an excuse to attack it be. creativity into chile under our

under sanctions. but you know foreign policy has traditionally been people doing it who did not have all covert operation is to stir up tensions and so on right we've seen u.s. military maneuvers and in the region in recent days how high would you say is a risk today of an accidental conflict. well i think that there probably isn't so much an accidental call risk this muscle is there is a deliberate conflict risk i think that john. the fact that the u.s. is deploying or it's fast forced into that we were right that we've had these events that are. allegedly on pointing towards iran and iran is denying that. all of this is possibly a seems for some. reason to attack iran iran or has been

identified by. people within the u.s. government as one of its citizens threats it's the media the only non compliant state within the region it's a state that can repeat it you need charity or pleats so threats of jets to the usa and to a lot of us major allies in the region israel so there are reasons. to believe that people within the us and in the gulf fear iran might believe that the only way to do with all the would be perceived threat from iran to use to have a conflict to bring iran to its leaves ok when now. it is an idea that may will more prove to be true in reality thank you so much for joining us and

sharing your views with us after visiting fellow at nottingham university center for conflict security and terrorism thank you very much for your time. for turning out to another of our top stories on this news hour and sudan where the transitional military council and protest leaders are expected to be back at the negotiating table after the negotiations are postponed following at the killing of protesters and last week let's take a look at how weak and how we got to this point in sudan. to months of demonstrations calling for his resignation president omar bashir was deposed by the military on april 12th a transitional council was set up but protest leaders weren't satisfied while a macit in outside on the headquarters continued they have talks with the council eventually reaching some agreements last week 6 people were killed when violence broke out near the protesters said in that it is accuse the army of restoring to tactics used under the shares saw an response to the military council suspended planned talks for 72 hours speak to our wall allo who's

a lecturer in human rights and social justice said kele university's rise cut from here thank you very much for being with us so these talks are about to resume suspension do you think there can be a positive outcome in this latest round. i think of the. shine of the resume the talks where it will go a little in these courses. that question of whether or not this will lead to. a break. this cold loop we have to wait and see because there are a lot of moving pieces here over the course of the last few days the military appears to be somehow or spirit or eat one of the most powerful generals. sport and it works where he is create praised the. you know it was issue of course it was the and it was it in saying that with all of the hard work of all these. officials who don't believe. this who should come this far that

it's also under a particular kind of brutal review organizations and the international community so that might have played a part but the person when they're moved it will be a big. yes you talk about that the military being a bit more conciliatory but how much power do you expect them to really give up. and i think that's a big important question it's important because the military is done traditionally had a very strong. role most leaders will it after independence that evoke grant. blue 30 miles and he was strongly supported by the exotic and one of the reasons why the military would be hesitant to concede too much power to the opposition that this military had to be active in. history and in government there are questions

of accountability course for justice particularly for their families are one of the most lot of voices in the opposition candidate so that kind of plays a bigger. kind of part in terms of how many probably there will be trying to negotiate and i think it depends on you know to what extent the opposition is what about the strength of the opposition i mean the opposition coalition that are in the groups that are in this coalition are groups that are used to be on opposing sides for decades who are in opposing sides and not they find themselves together how can we really expect them to find an agreement with the military when they can't even seem to agree amongst themselves. look position. let's internal evidence and. these are people who control of your friends. are professionals are. people who have been fighting against this in darfur and

or france or the day the 1st group of people but i think so far they have are common ground in terms of the interviewing with with the military but i think the challenge will be how to be able to grow us going to the united. front there are really other or position voices or some politicians movement participated in the group of course as you did last 30 years who are complaining that they are excluded from the course of this includes the popular of. the congress party or fast enough and the quality of the 2020 forces so. let's begin what's called the national go with al bashir they are expressing. they want to be included in the course of think the opposition generally does not stand or heat up at the moment but they are sort of neighbors that it would be a bit difficult for them to maintain that that agent it. will be resented to see

what comes out of this latest round of talks here in content thank you so much our annele for speaking to us our analysts from kenya versity thank you for your time. in algeria thousands of pro-democracy protesters are back on the streets of algae is they want everyone from alstead president abdelaziz bouteflika in a circle to hand over power they also want the july election to be scrapped former president would if he can resign in april after months of anti-government protests the army is now overseeing a 90 day transitional period before new elections. not to booking a fossil where they are concerns about an increase in the number of attacks against christians there's still no word on who was behind last sunday's church attack in the country's north the government police i saw in the greatest maybe behind it there is nicholas hock has an exclusive report from the remote region of donegal where the group is expanding its reach. we travel deep into northern bric enough.

on the front line of an expanding war against the group islamic state in the greater sahara. this is double 0 a christian town in the muslim region now living in fear. i examined my goal was running late for last sunday's mass when 20 mouse gunmen stepped in front of him they shot the priest in the head then they randomly selected 5 worshippers killing them one by one while perishers watched. among those killed was by my goes father a devout christian now buried in the church grounds. because. they were in military fatigue we thought they were the police but then they told women and children to leave and the carnage started. while no one has claimed responsibility for the attack the government believes it has the hallmarks of the stomach state in the greater sahara. in april self-styled the isolator of

a buck are all but welcome new affiliates from brooklyn a faso in mali. well you know since then attacks on the mali burkina faso border have multiplied 4 western hostages were abducted and then freed after a military operation in this area a spanish priest was damp to death and gunmen shot at a christian procession killing worshippers. you know. has to stand up against these terrorists and we will fight them into violent extremism and intolerance leave so country. became a faso is a muslim majority country but all of its presidents so far have been christians whilst these 2 face have co-existed and live together peacefully so far the latest attacks seek to stoke religious divisions especially in the north of the country. northern bricking.